CAMPAIGN WIRE: Obama Says He Won’t Be Clinton’s VP
(6:40 p.m. ET)
Responding to speculation about a joint ticket, Barack Obama says he will not play second fiddle to Hillary Clinton.
Obama told KTVQ in Billings, Mont., Friday: “You won’t see me as a vice presidential candidate.”
“I’m running for president,” he told the television station. “We have won twice as many states as Senator Clinton, and have a higher popular vote, and I think we can maintain our delegate count — but you know, what I’m really focused on right now, because all that stuff is premature, is winning this nomination and changing the country.”
Clinton herself has kept talk of a joint ticket alive, saying it’s a possibility.
Bill Clinton on Saturday (see below) even said the two Democrats would be an “unstoppable force” if they teamed up.
Actress in Clinton 3 a.m. Ad Is Obama Backer
(3:18 p.m. ET)
One of the sleeping children pictured in Hillary Clinton’s controversial “3 a.m.” ad has come out as a Barack Obama supporter.
Washington state resident Casey Knowles, 17, told KING5.com in Seattle that the Clinton ad used stock footage of her from eight years ago when she worked as a TV extra. And her family was shocked when they saw the ad for the first time Thursday.
“It’s really sort of ironic that my image would be used to advocate for Hillary when I myself do not,” Knowles told KING5.com.
Knowles said she is an Obama supporter who’s campaigned for him and even attended one of his rallies.
The Clinton ad showed several images of sleeping children, and then asked viewers who they wanted “answering the phone” in a crisis. The ad was widely credited with boosting her performance in the Texas primary.
The family does not own the footage, but Knowles said jokingly that she hopes Obama will get together with her to make a counter ad.
Click here to read the full story at KING5.com
Bill Clinton Says Joint Ticket is ‘Unstoppable Force’
(12:44 p.m. ET)
Bill Clinton said Saturday in Mississippi that a joint ticket between his wife and Barack Obama would be an “unstoppable force.”
The former president is the latest Hillary Clinton backer to stoke speculation about the two rivals joining forces once the dust settles on their heated primary race.
“I know that she has always been open to it, because she believes that if you can unite the energy and the new people that he’s brought in and the people in these vast swaths of small-town and rural America that she’s carried overwhelmingly — if you had those two things together, she thinks it’d be hard to beat,” Clinton said at a town hall meeting in Pass Christian, Miss.
“But you look at most of these places — he would win the urban areas and the upscale voters, and she wins the traditional rural areas that we lost when President Reagan was president. If you put those two things together, you’d have an almost unstoppable force,” Clinton explained.
Hillary Clinton again raised the idea of a joint ticket Friday in Mississippi, saying “that might be possible some day.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter, also says he’d support a Clinton-Obama ticket.
Obama has not ruled out the joint ticket idea, but says it’s premature to talk about those hypothetical scenarios.
– FOX News’ Shushannah Walshe contributed to this report.
You gotta be kidding me… Here she is telling the whole country Obama is not qualified to run the country yet he would be qualified if he runs with her. Don’t these people know that it is just as important to be able to run the country as a VP, as it is to be the President…. Can anyone say “Johnson”?
The Clinton’s or thieves, liars, and crooks…. I am amazed at the amount of stupid people who cannot see that. Just as the Kennedy’s where scum, so are the Clintons…
Paul
Clinton’s are trying to slither in through the back door. Don’t take it Obama! Choose your own VP and not Clinton! The Clinton’s will try to overrun your presidency. Plus I don’t think it will help Obama against McCain to have Clinton as VP. So many Independents and cross-over Republicans who are voting for Obama (Obamicans) really don’t like Hillary and may vote for McCain if Clinton is on the ticket. Obama, don’t choose Clinton as VP! You can win it without her.
Hillary is already a divisive and arrogant person. Why would Obama want to deal with her? She’d just run around trying to be president rather than doing what he expects of her. The two would constantly be at odds. He doesn’t need Hillary to win or to teach him the ropes of corrupt capital hill politics.
Anybody but Clinton. Enough of Bill. Even Hillary as VP would make me vote
for McCain. The only way I will vote for Obama is if Hillary is not on the ticket.
I have always said from the beginning that this hype between Clinton and Obama was for each to raise a great deal of support from the Democratic party, so eventually they could run on one ticket.
It was all planned from the beginning with the help of some psychology experts. They are both good playing mind games on the public. Making this country better and more safe isn’t their priority. Doing and saying whatever to get elected is.
Hopefully everyone will see their deception for what is. We aren’t as dumb as they are hoping.
Well, Bill can very well join his wife, his cohort, on the ticket if it ever gets to that.
oh boy…Dumb & Dumber…
So sick of the Clintons and politics as usual. Hillary does have more experience. More experience in making the wrong decisions.
I think if Obama wants her to be the VP it is good for him to know She will accept it, also I think he should use it to is advantage in his run for the ticket and say he is honored that she is stating ahead of time to be his VP
Didn’t someone once say that the only thing the VP had to do was inquire each day about the health of the president?